Overview
What JoomShift is, what it moves between Joomla sites, and how its two editions share one export format.
JoomShift is a Joomla administrator component that exports and imports modules, menus, articles, categories, custom fields, contacts and users as portable JSON or ZIP files. Moving content between two Joomla sites takes a few clicks instead of a rebuild, and a dry run shows exactly what an import would do before anything on the site changes.
What it does
- Exports what you select, or everything, to a file you can keep or move to another site.
- Imports that file on any other Joomla site, matching categories, menus, user groups and linked users to the ones on that site instead of copying ID numbers that mean something else there.
- Checks before importing: the dry run reports what would be created, updated or skipped, what is missing on the site and what to import first.
- Works across Joomla versions: export from Joomla 3 and import into Joomla 6, or the other way round.
Two editions, one format
JoomShift ships as two installable packages that read and write the same export format, so a file made with one imports cleanly with the other.
| Edition | Joomla versions | Package |
|---|---|---|
| J4/5/6 Edition | 4.0+, 5.x, 6.x | com_joomshift_v1.1.0.zip |
| J3 Edition | 3.4 – 3.10 | com_joomshift_j3_v1.1.0.zip |